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This happened a few weeks ago in Connecticut. The pilot was a high school kid flying his quad at a state beach. After he landed this woman approached him, on the phone with 911, complaining about him flying over the beach and taking video. When the police refused to come out because what he was doing wasn't illegal, she went nuts and assaulted him. Then she tried to stage it so that it appeared he assaulted her. Fortunately he recorded the whole thing and she was arrested.

Interesting. I think it's pretty funny that nowadays people seem to default to 'you're assaulting me' when they get into physical altercations. Seems oddly detached but maybe it's more for the camera than anything.

When I was 10, I watched my uncle's ex wife assault his fiance after smashing her car with a baseball bat. My uncle put himself between his ex and his fiance to protect her. When his ex swung, he pushed her back. He never hit her. She hit him. She hit him with a bat. She damaged his property. She damaged his fiance's property. She attempted to assault his fiance.

When the cops arrived, they arrested him and not her.

That's why men have become so detached from their own self defense when women attack them. Women have turned our legal system into a proxy for their abuse of men.

Tons of people get annoyed if they are photographed or video'ed. Depending on how brazen you are, the more people tend to get pissed. Surveillance Video Man is also not doing anything illegal.

On top of that, no one wants anything buzzing over their heads as they're trying to get their tan on or enjoy their backyard BBQ. The closer you get, the more annoyed some people will get. How many videos have we seen of people throwing stuff at quads so far? Too many.

In other words, if you want to keep flying trouble free, you better be prepared to interact and charm. This is standard photographer 101 stuff. And the more standoff-ish you get, telling them it's perfectly legal and to go away, the more you end up angering people and inviting bigger problems.

However, we don't know the context of this. Maybe someone else was flying and annoying people an hour ago - or the day before. There are plenty of videos out there of people flying up and down a beach 20 feet above ground. And then someone sees this guy flying and he gets blamed.

In itself, the woman looks crazy. But what if someone else - or the same guy - was buzzing above her house 2 days ago when she was trying to enjoy her BBQ and sunbathe in her back yard? In other words, just because we see what happened in the video, we still have no idea what happened before the video.

I can't stand people like you who try your hardest to justify assault and battery. Unbelievable. Someone might have annoyed her one day so what she did is totally understandable, right? Go troll elsewhere.

Whenever I fly, I always imagine what would happen if one of the props broke and I crashed right here. That pretty much keeps me away from other people's property and from people/children. No, I don't want to pay anyone's medical bills or buy someone a new windshield on their car, and I don't want to bring any more negative attention to the hobby. According to public opinion, drones are bad and 3D printers are bad, so I imagine a 3D printed drone would be like the devil. I would do a disservice to both hobbies by being an asshole.

I think you have a skewed opinion of "the public". Most people think these are pretty cool toys and surprised with the capabilities and gadgetry. But at the same time, most people don't want them buzzing around in their face and on top of their house - this includes me as well. They're fun to fly, but they're not that fun to watch someone else fly - especially when you're doing something else. Would you want someone else flying their hex over your house for half hour each day? It's the same thing as the neighbors using the lawnmower at the "wrong" time. Annoying at best. That's why a good attitude and charm can go a long way...

In other words, if you want to keep flying trouble free, you better be prepared to interact and charm. This is standard photographer 101 stuff.

This has got to be right up there for this entire hobby. Being legally allowed to do something doesn't mean you should ignore social decorum and do whatever the hell you want within the limits of the law.

So its come to this. I've had the cops called on me before, but this is a whole new level. Since harshly judging her over the internet is the only coping mechanism I have for my anger right now, she looks like a trophy wife who is used to getting exactly what she wants, and when she didn't get what she wants she went into full on tantrum mode. That was the least mature thing I've seen in my life and I'm disgusted. Just goes to show that some people might look like adults but are actually just big children.

If she is a trophy wife it must be for participation rather than winning. Many people never mature into adulthood, they feel entitled to whatever they want, and think they have a right to not be offended while feeling offended by anything they wish. Its why we get people calling 911 because there is too much salt on their fries.

The media is provoking this type of reaction from people when they report about how we should all be so very afraid of Big Brother and his little 'drone'.

You can actually tell from her actions and demeanor and the things she is saying that she is acting how she believes she should act not how she would act if she wasn't 'primed' to go ballistic when she sees a 'drone' by the media.

She only really went half ballistic and thats how you can tell, she wasn't fully committed or that boy would have been mince meat.

highly ridiculous. It's astounding that she thought a physical attack was justified here. At the time she probably felt she was being an upstanding citizen standing up for all women by fighting what she thought was a pervert. Well, dealing with it physically was wrong, and making that assumption was clearly wrong.

She was much too eager to be a fighting feminist. And also probably just a stupid person. Humanity can be pretty dumb at times.

Read about this on RCG a little while back. Interesting to see the video from it after trying to piece it together from written descriptions. I thought it was more 'pushed me over' but that was pretty full on.

I guess some people just don't filter their thoughts the same way everyone else does...

I went to a nearby beach that is a whopping 2 miles long, set up, talked to some people that were curious what my "thing" was, demonstrated the loiter feature (pulling the quad to one direction or another), demonstrated rtl (flying it away then having it return), and make a lot of people think the quad was just awesome. I never went below 50 feet save for take off/landing, then after the end of my last flight, some crazy lady came over and started taking pictures of me...and dialed 911 for the 3rd time in 15 minutes...she said something to the effect of, "There's a guy here taking pictures at the beach with a helicopter plane." (I distinctly remember her saying, "with a helicopter plane," because that just sounds hilarious.) They basically said that they'd send someone when one gets free during each of the 3 calls she made, she decided they didn't care enough about someone obeying the law so when no one was around she assaulted me and she decided to stop when she got a phone call. I called the police to report the assault, and boy was the response big...10 or more vehicles arrived (cops, DEEP, and an ambulance)...They first listened to her story of lies (she claimed I was taking close ups of people in bikinis, and that she had asked me to stop flying before calling the police, and that I was the one that assaulted her, and and and). The police approached me very aggressively, believing her full story, and before anything else was said I brought up something that she missed... The fact that the cell phone in my hand has a camera...that was recording. I had video evidence that she went nuts completely unprovoked, and was the one that assaulted me. She was then charged with assault, and breach of peace and I gave the cops a copy of the video for their prosecution. I then also showed them my last flight where you can make out her colorful shirt getting up from the beach then following it until it lands which proved that she lied when claiming that she asked me to stop flying before calling the police.
At the end of it all, one of the officers said to me basically, "Flying that thing the way you were is fine, you're not in any trouble. You can come back and fly, but just be aware that some people can be alarmed."

This scares the crap out of me because:

1) it happened randomly, without provocation (or at least if he said anything to provoke her, it didn't get recorded), and that

2) Had he not recoreded everything, the police would have believed her version of events and he would have been arrested and charged with physical and/or sexual assault.

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He should have a least defended himself. I hope there was some sort of justice served on her, because he was dealt way more shit than he deserved. Certainly more than I'd take. Man or woman, it makes no difference when you're assaulting strangers.

I guess I'm pretty glad I'm 6'4" and 320 lbs.Nobody starts anything with me. I usually carry a knife too. Mostly use it for cutting tape and prying on Crap, but it would come in handy for a scare. (Benchmade Adamas) I've had a couple sketchy people come up to myself and a buddy I usually fly with. Never like this though.

No threaten, defend yourself. I was thinking of carrying like a light metal sword with no edge or point. poke/ prod people away from you. I need to talk to a cop on laws on these sort of things. maybe just a walking cane.

Wow...I guess everyone here lives in happy lala land where no one ever hurts anyone else. Fuck me for keeping something to defend myself. I might as well mention I also carry a Springdlfield Armory XDm .45, an AutoMag .30 carbine and a Vepr 12 shotgun. I'd rather take down some idiot red neck that wants to take his interpretation of the law in his own hands instead of waiting for the State Troopers to show up 45 minutes after I call them. I fly here in Alaska. When I go out to fly, I go out far. We need protection against Moose and black bears as well as idiot rednecks.

I almost did not post it because of that, but I think this is something that needs to be seen. Especially considering that the kid got a considerable amount of flak from people on RCG that don't like FPV. I think as long as everyone refrains from posting her name here in the thread then it's OK.

I think, but I may be wrong, that anything containing personal information is against the rules to post on reddit. His treatment at the hands of RCGroups is hardly surprising but doesn't justify doxxing the crazy bitch. Up to the mods though, I got no skin in the game and dont really give a fuck.

I checked the rules, it's kind of a grey area. Since she did get arrested, and that arrest is a public record, and this is newsworthy, it's probably OK. There's already a news story out that names her as well. Oddly enough, had she not been arrested it would definitely NOT be OK to post the link. I have messaged the mods about it.

What about the sex offender registry? Isn't that just a legal way of publicly shaming someone? Why is the majority okay with the sex offender registry but not okay with this? For the record, I'm against both.

People's names are published when they're charged with alleged dui offences. So its clearly acceptable. The recent slender man case was one of the worst. The media immediately published names and pictures of very young girls who allegedly stabbed their friend multiple times

Dude calm your tits. I clearly stated I don't give a fuck. What I meant by "not cool" was that it was against reddit rules. Jesus fucking christ, you know I might apologize to you if you weren't such an enormous douche all the time. Get over yourself.

How about you go back through, let's say the last year of our interactions. See who is the one starting it? It's you, every time. The last time I interacted with you of my own accord, I was cordial and offered you some useful advice. Are you really holding a grudge this long? I wasn't even the one who doxxed you in our original confrontation, it was the other guy whoever the fuck that was. Shit if you're just bored and feel like taking swings at me once in a while, go for it.

its true, one time, you were cordial and decent. if youd recall, i was too. i have been before as well, and gotten nothing but nastiness until your response to the post youre referencing now. ill stop harassing you.